Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] was only " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was up to her to get herself and the twins out of here , back to the safety of their apartment — and clearly any display of outrage or temperament was only going to delay matters . |
| 2 | Within a week fifteen children had it , including Evelyn , and Biff was only too glad to accept volunteers for extra shifts . |
| 3 | Their return to Leith on the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ was just as uncomfortable as the journey out and Corbett was only too pleased to feel the firm ground of the quayside beneath him . |
| 4 | Although the production of synthetic diamonds and rubies was only made possible by modern science , the idea of replacing natural by artificial substances in jewellery was one of remote antiquity . |
| 5 | And Penny was only twenty-three . |
| 6 | The combined output of the five largest textile factories , namely the Friendship Textile Mill , Mwatex , Mutex , Kiltex and Sunguratex was only 67.2 million sq . |
| 7 | But when Tiare 's mother died and Tiare was only seventeen , she broke the vow . |
| 8 | And coal-mining was only worse through the danger of it being underground . |
| 9 | Oxford the red hot favourites have made 3 changes to their lineup in the run up to this year 's race and Sam was only told she was in the boat at the weekend . |
| 10 | Wilson had nursed her and taken care of her and Phoebe was only too willing to show her gratitude . |
| 11 | Last year real GNP grew by 8.5% , and inflation was only 3.4% , lower than anywhere in Asia except Japan and Malaysia . |
| 12 | Yet the prohibition of cock-fighting and animal-baiting was only politically possible because of the tacit consent of the landed élite , who had already largely desert ed these activities for more exclusive and civilized ones . |
| 13 | England triumphed 4–1 and Jack was only beaten in the last 90 seconds when the game was well won . |
| 14 | And Christ was only a writhen bleeding worm |
| 15 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 16 | Well , they thought they were superior because their trade was classified Grade I and Met was only Grade 2 , so they got paid more than I did and considered they were a cut above me in every way . |
| 17 | And America was only just in the war . |
| 18 | Yet what was going on in the exchequer and treasury was only symptomatic of changes throughout government , from chancery to wardrobe and chamber , from the great seal to the privy seal . |
| 19 | I had food and water for days and Reggane was only twenty-five miles away , but I was terrified , with no control over my body . |
| 20 | He was logical and courteous , so that it was unnecessary for Dorrainge to say that he supposed a Longhand had nearly always featured in Ireland 's greatest defeats , and Lugh was only following tradition . |
| 21 | The valiant work of the late Robin Best has failed to dispel popular images , yet his figures showed that the annual average transfer of agricultural land to urban land use in England and Wales was only 9,300 hectares between 1975 and 1980 ( compared with 17,500 between 1945 and 1950 , and 25,100 between 1931 and 1939 ) . |
| 22 | Though fever and diarrhoea still linger as killing diseases in parts of southern and south-eastern Europe , and malaria was only beginning to give way before D.D.T. in 1945 these diseases now linger on only in backward districts . |
| 23 | After all , Jeopardy commanded high status within the house and Lucien was only a newcomer . |
| 24 | But even then , when she was standing upright beside him , he made no attempt to release her hand and Rachel was only too aware of his appraising glance as he glanced down at the wet jade swimsuit tightly moulded to her slight , almost boyish figure before abruptly she snatched her hand away and walked quickly to the changing-rooms . |
| 25 | By this time it was mid December and Christmas was only a week away . |
| 26 | The ward had been closed by cuts but Poliakoff was only subliminally concerned with the politics of this . |
| 27 | Someone had mentioned that the ski-jump was off to the right , but visibility was only 50 yards and it could not be seen . |
| 28 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 29 | 100 ) , but Macedon was only a secondary theatre in the Decelean and Ionian Wars , so that he does not figure very much in the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon . |
| 30 | Television exposure is the most significant outlet for this exposure in the United States , but rugby was only ranked 103rd out of 114 spectator sports in a recent survey by the Sports Marketing Group of Dallas , Texas . |